It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas... for the Pickle Jar team, anyway. I decorated my own house on Monday, we’ve put up the Christmas tree in the office, and we’ve dressed Scout as Rudolph. (OK, maybe that last one didn’t happen. Not yet, anyway.)

For those of you who aren’t yet in the festive spirit, we’ve got some non-Christmas Pickle Jar links you might have missed from the team’s Twitter feeds this week. We’ve clearly been looking over the pond for inspiration this week, as four of our five links are about US universities and colleges…

First up is our November update. Each month we bring you a brief roundup of our recent work and other goings-on in the Pickle Jar world:

This Lohud piece about US high school students using social media to research potential universities is interesting, especially for the anecdote of a student rejecting one college because the social chatter was dull.